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Linda Perry seeks the source of the line "...and the earth moved." She is not referring to a similar line from Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Marvin Levine asks for the name of a film that includes a scene in which a young Buddhist woman speaks with the shogun who has killed her parents. Questioned about her equanimity, she says, "You only did what your karma made you do."
Andrew T. Young requests the original source of the couplet "Glimpse you e'er the green ray, count the morrow a fine day" and the title of the novel in which one characters alludes to that adage while standing at the rail of a ship. He also asks who first stated, "The sun went down in the sea, and went out like a blue spark."
Send inquiries and answers to "Chapter and Verse," Harvard Magazine, 7 Ware Street, Cambridge 02138. Readers seeking texts of poems or passages identified for others are asked to include a stamped, self-addressed, legal-sized envelope with their requests.